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November 20, 2006
The International Conference on Tsunami Disaster Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities
The conference will be held on January 11-12, 2007 in Phuket, Thailand.
Objectives of the conference:
Establishing international networking for Promotion of Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities in the context of WSIS (United Nations World Summit on the Information Society) Plan of Action implementation by sharing information on;
1. Needs of Persons with Disabilities for Tsunami Preparedness with special attention to respective components of individual preparedness such as logical understanding on Tsunami, accessible communication channel for warning, and planned/confirmed evacuation route,
2. Best practices of Tsunami Preparedness promotion activities that meet the requirements of Persons with Disabilities,
3. On-going Tsunami Disaster Prevention/Mitigation initiatives at local/international level,
4. Initiatives of Bridging the Digital Divide in the area of Disaster Preparedness of Persons with
Disabilities as the implementation of WSIS Plan of Actions,
Further information:
http://www.apcdproject.org/tsunami.html
Posted by jicafriends at November 20, 2006 04:48 PM
Comments
My name is Ricardo from Bolivia, i was participed in Tokyo from 2001. i am very happy to meet you, greeting to all Jica Tokyo.
Posted by: Ricardo Rocha at November 26, 2006 10:24 AM
Dear Mr. Ricardo
We are so glad to receive your email.
We all remember you very well.
We understand the Latin American Decade of Persons with disabilities has just started this year. We would like to have information about it.
If you know something on the decade, please let us know.
Thank you again.
jicafriends
Posted by: jicafriends at November 28, 2006 03:58 PM
My name is pamikatsih, Iam participed leadership training in tokyo on 1998. Now I have program disabled right for Person with disability in earquik in klaten Central Java, so I need information the resalt of The International Conference on Tsunami Disaster Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities
I interested join but now I have sun 4 mon
thank
pamikatsih
InterAksi Foundation
Fajar Indah
Jl Mawar barat VI/B-182 Solo 57171
Indonesia
Posted by: pamikatsih at December 8, 2006 12:48 AM